sarse
sarse is the alternative form of searce.
sarse is the pronunciation spelling of sauce.
Meaning of searce
Noun
searce (plural searces)
- A sieve; a strainer.
- Yet will our selfe overweening sift his divinitie through our searce [translating estamine]: whence are engendred all the vanities and errours wherewith the world is so full-fraught[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Meaning of sauce
Noun
sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- apple sauce; mint sauce
- Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
- [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
- Alcohol, booze.
- Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
- Synonyms:
- adult beverage, alcohol, bevvy, booze, carouse, drink, fuddling, grog, hard drink, libation
- Vitality; capability or talent.
- It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
- Synonyms:
- juice
- Anabolic steroids.
- A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Forms of sarse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sarses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sarses |
| present participle | sarsing |
| past participle | sarsed |
| past | sarsed |
Questions about sarse
- What is sarse the alternative form of?
- Sarse is the alternative form of searce.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sarse (page history and authors); searce (page history and authors); sauce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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